English Postcoloniality: Literatures from Around the World

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As the British empire expanded throughout the world, the English language played an important role in power relations between Britain and its colonies. With the end of World War II, more and more countries became gradually decolonised, and colonial power and cultural patterns clashed and combined with indigenous traditions, myths and mores to create postcolonial texts. This volume explores English postcoloniality as a process around the world and examines the complex interplay of language and culture.

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.,."[an] interesting colleciton of essays on a wide range of postcolonial literatures...a valuable reference book in its area. Recommended for all levels."-Choice
...[an] interesting colleciton of essays on a wide range of postcolonial literatures...a valuable reference book in its area. Recommended for all levels.-Choice
English Postcoloniality is a fine collection of essays that provide extremely useful and detailed histories of the development of English-language literatures in New Zealand and Australia, India, East Africa, et cetera.-World Literature Today
..."an interesting colleciton of essays on a wide range of postcolonial literatures...a valuable reference book in its area. Recommended for all levels."-Choice
..."[an] interesting colleciton of essays on a wide range of postcolonial literatures...a valuable reference book in its area. Recommended for all levels."-Choice
"English Postcoloniality is a fine collection of essays that provide extremely useful and detailed histories of the development of English-language literatures in New Zealand and Australia, India, East Africa, et cetera."-World Literature Today

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RADHIKA MOHANRAM is Lecturer in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, where she teaches gender and postcolonial theory. She has published widely on postcolonial theory and literature and is currently finishing a book on Edith Wharton and Diasporic subjectivity. GITA RAJAN teaches Victorian literature and postcolonial discourse at Fairfield University./e She was an Andrew Mellon Fellow in Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and had a fellowship from Yale Center for British Art.